The training will be in a hybrid format, with virtual lectures offered this spring followed by an in-person intensive week at the University of Cape Town at the end of May 2024. The focus will be…
Environmental Services include all contributions of nature to humans, and these are relative according to the context and the existence of alternatives (IPBES 2019). Ecosystem degradation jeopardizes the sustainable provision of these services. In this context, Payne for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes arose as policy instruments that promote pro-environmental land use through financial incentives for actions that improve, maintain, or maximize the provision of ES (Kim et al. 2016).
Eden Seyoum is one of the participants from the first cohort of the Inclusive Green Economy in Practice program. Now, being part of the IGE alumni network, she reflects on her experiences from the…
EfD Vietnam, in partnership with the Institute of Strategy and Policy of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, hosted a policy training on circular economy. The workshop aimed to train…
High temperatures have unequal impacts on household consumption across India and thus widen socio-economic inequality. To fight this, the country’s climate response must promote mindful consumption among the affluent and equip vulnerable communities with effective tools for survival.
Disentangling the chicken or egg problem of household sorting and segregated waste collection: A randomized controlled trial in India.
The training workshop on implementing Circular Economy at provincial level in Viet Nam is designed to provide the local officials from different provinces in the Southern part in Viet Nam with…
According to Chilean legislation, a salmonid concession holder must choose between two mutually exclusive stocking density systems: Stocking Reduction Percentage (SRP) or Stocking by Density. This study identifies the main determinants in the choice of stocking system and estimates their marginal effects. The results suggest that if the previously stocked species is Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), the probability of stocking by SRP increases by 36.6%.
An important question for policymakers worldwide is how to make climate and environmental policies acceptable among the populations. A new study sheds light on the preferences in five East African…
In recent decades, there has been increasing research interest in individuals' support of and resistance to climate and environmental policy instruments. However, there is an empirical bias in the literature, as few studies have been conducted in low-income countries. Based on a survey with 4,766 respondents we identify the level of public acceptability for climate policy instruments and their determinants in East Africa(Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda).